1) Question: I'm on a company's board of directors. We fired the company's CEO and, as a parting shot, she said in an interview that we were "doofuses" and that we "f---ed [her] over." Can we now refuse to pay her the last $10 million the company owes her under her employment agreement?

Answer: If the CEO has a non-disparagement clause in her employment contract, her "doofus" remark may well have violated the employment agreement and caused her to forfeit the $10 million. (Fortune, Yes, Carol Bartz had a non-disparagement clause)

2) Question: I broke up with my girlfriend last year. Since then, she has telephoned me over 65,000 times. Can I get the police involved here?

3) Question: The police wrongly suspected me of hiding heroin and got a search warrant for a cavity search of my body. They found no heroin, but did send me a hospital bill for over $1,100 to cover the cost of the search. Do I need to pay this?

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1) Question: I'm on a company's board of directors. We fired the company's CEO and, as a parting shot, she said in an interview that we were "doofuses" and that we "f---ed [her] over." Can we now refuse to pay her the last $10 million the company owes her under her employment agreement?

Answer: If the CEO has a non-disparagement clause in her employment contract, her "doofus" remark may well have violated the employment agreement and caused her to forfeit the $10 million. (Fortune, Yes, Carol Bartz had a non-disparagement clause)

2) Question: I broke up with my girlfriend last year. Since then, she has telephoned me over 65,000 times. Can I get the police involved here?

3) Question: The police wrongly suspected me of hiding heroin and got a search warrant for a cavity search of my body. They found no heroin, but did send me a hospital bill for over $1,100 to cover the cost of the search. Do I need to pay this?